I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am a non-invasivist rather than a non-violentist. That is, I believe that an invaded people have the right to defend themselves by any means necessary. This includes putting ground glass or poison in the invaders' food, shooting at them from ambush, sabotage, the general strike, armed revolution, etc. It's up to the invaded to decide which of these techniques they will use. It's not up to some moralist to tell them which techniques are permissible.

[Red Dirt Marijuana] contains most of the great short stories in English that are not by Mr. Hemingway or Mr. O'Hara.

Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat.

The rapists of the intellectual world become politicians; the seducers become artists.

What the thinker thinks, the prover proves.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.